The Invisible War: African American Anti-Slavery Resistance

The Invisible War: African American Anti-Slavery Resistance from the Stono Rebellion through the Seminole Wars
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The Invisible War attempts to redress a fundamental misconception lodged in the heart of American historiography: the notion that there was no significant collective resistance to or struggle against slavery by captured Africans who had been forcibly immigrated to the United States from the mother continent. Such a lacuna may stem from the extent to which then-contemporary records sought to disguise the true nature of what are presently called the Seminole Warsâ€“â€“as just another set of Indian wars, rather than a struggle of African resistance to slavery, conducted in alliance with Indian resistance to ongoing colonial encroachment. While academic and public understanding celebrate the heroes of the Underground Railroad for facilitating the movement of Africans towards freedom in the north, there is virtual silence surrounding the more logical, more sizeable, and more politically significant movement of self-liberated Africans southward to free territories in what is now Georgia and Florida. From these southern territories, communities of free Africans were to wage a constant struggle against the slavery-based colonies to the north. Both by force of arms and by example, they represented an ongoing threat to the existence of Anglo-Carolinian-institutionalized slavery. In witness whereof, a scant 40 years after the termination of the Third Seminole War, African fighters would ally with the northern armies during the Civil War in order to finally bring the enslavement system to an end. While any government at war might censor and reinterpret conflicts in order to quell public fears and solicit support, why has subsequent American scholarship failed to challenge the records, emphases and interpretations of the so-called Seminole Wars? Why hasnâ€™t it replaced the old â€œmaster-slaveâ€ lexicon governing ethnic relationsâ€“â€“which reflected Anglo-Carolinian efforts during the enslavement period to codify and legalize the institutions of slaveryâ€“â€“with more objective contemporary terminology? This book challenges contemporary scholars to free the history of African Americans from the lexicon of enslavement, and to set the record of their struggle straight.
Country USA
Brand Clarity Press
Manufacturer Clarity Press, Inc.
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber unknown
ReleaseDate 2006-07-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780932863508

Country	USA
Brand	Clarity Press
Manufacturer	Clarity Press, Inc.
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	unknown
ReleaseDate	2006-07-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780932863508

The Invisible War: African American Anti-Slavery Resistance from the Stono Rebellion through the Seminole Wars

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